Spring Classics 2016 discussion & commentary ***SPOILERS***

[rich p]

Full coverage is great, much better than joining a race after a few hours racing.

Yebbut it's a glorious spring day out there, you couch potato...

 

[SWSteve]

Just put the coverage on from the start (recorded so to not miss any of the opening bit). I'll fast forward through in a short while.

Why is the track so bloody long? Did all tracks used to be this long before a transition to 250m/333m?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Yebbut it's a glorious spring day out there, you couch potato...

So it is. Oh well.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Just put the coverage on from the start (recorded so to not miss any of the opening bit). I'll fast forward through in a short while.

Why is the track so bloody long? Did all tracks used to be this long before a transition to 250m/333m?

All you never wanted to know about velodromes around the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cycling_tracks_and_velodromes

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

What crisp flavours would fall into the category of "flamboyant"?

 

[smutchin]

So it is. Oh well.

So Scottish.

 

[Dayvo]

Some of those shots of the cyclists tits-up in the ditch look like me 30+ years ago on the way home from the pub.

 

[smutchin]

What crisp flavours would fall into the category of "flamboyant"?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

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I'll go order a packet for Jacky Durand

 

[rich p]

Just put the coverage on from the start (recorded so to not miss any of the opening bit). I'll fast forward through in a short while.

Why is the track so bloody long? Did all tracks used to be this long before a transition to 250m/333m?

My local outdoor velodrome, Steve!
Preston Park Brighton, East Sussex 579.03 m or 1,899.7 ft tarmac Outdoor track, built in 1877, the oldest velodrome in the UK
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[Louch]

I really need to go see that next time I'm working down in Brighton

 

[smutchin]

Why is the track so bloody long? Did all tracks used to be this long before a transition to 250m/333m?

Partly to do with being built round the outside of athletics tracks. There are shorter tracks too - Brändle set his Hour record on the 200m track at the UCI's hq in Switzerland.

250m is just the Olympic standard, basically because four laps = 1km

 

[rich p]

I really need to go see that next time I'm working down in Brighton

It's currently being upgraded to comply with BC rules so they can re-start racing there.

 

[rich p]

Sagan and Fab in the wrong group

 

[Beebo]

The second group have opened up a big gap on the favourites.